Patent GB-190309575-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Vending Machines.
Inventor: MITCHELL CHARLES MONTGOMERY
Filed: 1903-04-28
Granted: 1903-08-27
Abstract: 9575. Mitchell, C. M. April 28. Sale apparatus for supplying several kinds of goods by means of a single actuating-mechanism. Two forms (1 and 2 below) are described, which are shown in Figs. 2 and 5 and in Figs. 11, 12, 14, 16, and 17 respectively, the former being designed for three kinds of goods and the latter for four, of rather greater length. Casings; storage.-(1) The main casing 1 contains the mechanism, delivery well 13, and cash drawer 8, and is surmounted by a removable receptacle, having a glazed front 1<d>, which contains piles of the goods in columnar compartments 1<b> and in a storage compartment 1<c> arranged in rear. These compartments register with openings in the top of the main casing, in which tubes, attached to the sides, continue the two lateral compartments down to the delivery drawers 3, and a tube, held by the aperture, prolongs the middle compartment. (2) The storage receptacle with its glazed front is an inseparable shallower part of the whole casing, and the goods are contained in four rectangular tubes 16<a> open against the glass, which are riveted to beams holding them over the delivery drawers 40. The names of the goods are shown under glass over the sloping top of the lower part of the casing. Delivery mechanism.-(1) The bottom article of a pile is carried forward to an aperture 2<bb> in a table 2<b> which supports the whole pile over the well 13, by means of a bottomless drawer 3 which is normally held in the position shown on the left of Fig. 2 by means of a spring 3<aa>, but is movable to the position shown on the right. Rods 3<aa> bearing collars project from the drawers through guiding eyes on the tables. The middle drawer 3a is higher than the lateral ones, and the collar on its rod is an eccentric block 10<g>. (2) The goods are removed by skeleton drawers 40, Fig. 17, which slide upon a skeleton table 32, Fig. 11. Actuating mechanism.-(1) Any one of the three drawers is operated by means of the turnable drawrod 10, having the index handle 10<a> and the arm 10<e> for engaging the collars on the protruding rods. This arm can pass under the terminal block 10<g> of the central rod and over a fixed block 11<a> when it is set to a lateral rod. It is shown in the position required after operating the right-hand drawer. In operating the central drawer, it is guided by a groove in the block 11<a>. (2) The arm 33 on the central draw-rod 29 has terminal wings 45 to catch the rods 43 protruding from the outer drawers, and intermediate skeleton wings 46 to catch the rods of the inner drawers but escape them when actuating the outer drawers. The proper positions of the wings are insured by a pin 47 finding holes 49. Coin action.-The arm 10<e> of the draw-bar is, normally, at the rear of the grooved block 11<a>, and is obstructed by a pin 8<a> on a lever 8<x>, which is fulcrumed in a slit stud 9 and carries a coin pan 6. Loaded with the coin from the shoot 5, the lever lifts the pin 8<a> so that the arm 10<e>, if horizontal, is under it, and if vertical, presents a hole to it and can consequently be pulled forward. (2) A detent 34 is disengaged from a small sharp collar 35 on the draw-bar 29. Coin-discharging mechanism.-(1) A lever 12 operated by the draw-bar ejects the coin from the pan so that it drops through a slot 7 in the false bottom of the casing into a receptacle 8. (2) The coin is shed because a bevelled collar 36 on the draw-bar tilts the detent 34. Fraud, preventing.- A pocket 22, Figs. 15 and 16, carried by a slide 24, is provided behind the coin entrance 21 for shifting the coin therefrom to the shoot 19, and a gauge-plate 25 is provided to hold coins of the requisite size at the shoulder 27, but allow undersized coins to pass and drop outside the shoot.